Second Skins
The Body Narratives of Transsexuality
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ISBN-13:
9780231109352
Veröffentl:
1998
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.04.1998
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Jay Prosser
Gewicht:
463 g
Format:
230x154x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies.
"In his elegant, absorbing, and groundbreaking study of the transgendered subject, Jay Prosser draws on an array of autobiographical accounts by transsexuals to re-think, for our time, descriptive categories that enmesh sexuality with gender. Prosser's empathic and incisive argument will leave gender studies shaken up and permanently reconfigured." -- Diane Wood Middlebrook, Stanford University; author of Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton "It is unusual to encounter a book that is as innovative, lucid and thought-provoking as Second Skins. Prosser's book will undoubtedly become an essential work in transsexual studies, and should also be read by anyone even remotely interested in contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, and the body." -- Rita Felski, University of Virginia
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Transitions -- Changing Bodies, Changing NarrativesPart 1: Bodies1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual EmbodimentPart 2: Narratives3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography4. "Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition": The Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transexuality5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch BluesEpilogue: Transsexuality in Photography -- Fielding the ReferentNotesIndex
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